GNU bug report logs - #48324
27.2; hexl-mode duplicates the UTF-8 BOM

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "R. Diez" <rdiezmail-emacs <at> yahoo.de>

Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 21:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.2

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, 48324 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48324: 27.2; hexl-mode duplicates the UTF-8 BOM
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 13:08:08 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> You obviously have a very specific use case in mind.  But there are
> others.

I don't see any other use cases for requesting a specific number of
bytes than having some restrictions for the usage of that selection of
bytes. 

>> (And we don't have a -without-signature variant, do we?)
>
> We do: utf-16le and utf-16be.

I've now mentioned this in the doc string.

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